Bluescreen problems

[Dusk Star]

Well, the clean install of the latest Nvidea beta drivers seems to have cleared up my issues! I feel really stupid that it was that simple, though....

Thanks to both of you!

[Mr. Fox]

A bad driver installation can cause all sorts of issues. That would have been the first thing I would have expected to be causing trouble, especially if the problem developed in conjunction with a driver update or shortly thereafter.

If you have any more driver power state failures, simply disable hibernation and edit your power profile to not allow sleep. Turn off the system when you are not using it so it cannot go to sleep. In most cases, that eliminates those errors. Sleep and hibernation cause all kinds of issues on PCs. Some hardware just does not like going to sleep or waking up, and corrupt or poorly written drivers can exacerbate the issue.

[Dusk Star]

A bad driver installation can cause all sorts of issues. That would have been the first thing I would have expected to be causing trouble, especially if the problem developed in conjunction with a driver update or shortly thereafter.

If you have any more driver power state failures, simply disable hibernation and edit your power profile to not allow sleep. Turn off the system when you are not using it so it cannot go to sleep. In most cases, that eliminates the errors. Sleep and hibernation cause all kinds of issues on PCs. Some hardware just does not like going to sleep or waking up, and corrupt or poorly written drivers can exacerbate the issue.

I don't think I have it set to ever go to sleep/hibernate while on power, but I will change it if it is, thank you! And shutting it down at night when there isn't anything finishing up is probably a great idea too, I had just never really gotten in the habit after switching over from a desktop!

Drivers are currently at 301.24, as the 296.10 drivers were the ones installed during the crashes. I hope that a non beta 300 series driver comes out soon, though.

My 460m is not overclocked, due to the suspicion I had that it might make getting the laptop serviced in the future more difficult. My temperatures are almost always below 65 degrees, according to the GPU-z sensor log at least. (That was only at a 75% load, though, so it may go higher) Idle temps are mid 50s. Hope it's just a driver issue.

Oh, and your first (unedited) post was better, Mr. Fox- why did you change it so much? In any case, thank you!

[Mr. Fox]

Thank you. It did have a lot of detail. I started working on it and after I posted it I saw that your problem was already solved. Of course, that was great news to me, but the post looked out of place. At that point it was not relevant any more. So, I merely left what might be useful in case you encounter more problems.

Your temps are great... no worries there. And, since you are not overclocking, that's not going to be a problem either. Under the circumstances, it may have been only a corrupt video driver installation and you might be able to get away with using sleep function without troubles.

Video cards (AMD and NVIDIA, and sometimes even Intel integrated graphics) are getting to be pretty famous for TDR errors with Windows 7. The "Display driver XXXXXXX stopped responding and has successfully recovered" is very common on systems that have every reason to function normally. The driver power state problems that occur when waking from sleep can compound the TDR issues. I gained more experience than I would prefer to ever have with 6970M and 6990M troubleshooting, but it was useful knowledge that can be applied to any brand.

[aznpos531]

Glad to hear you no longer experience any issues

If you're interested you can read up on TDR errors here on nVidia's statement on the issue: NVIDIA Statement on TDR Errors Display driver nvlddmkm stopped...